TOURISM TO CO TO ISLAND - A PLACE WORTH VISIT AND EXPLORE

to prepare for you a complete and safe vacation in Co To, Vietbluetour will share with you our experiences when preparing to spend your vacation in Co To. Very attractive place worth visiting and exploring!!

 

Introduction to Co To Island

Co To is an archipelago of about 50 islands located in the east of Quang Ninh province with an area of ​​46.2 km². Co To island district currently has 1,500 households, with nearly 6,000 people. This place has a particularly important position in terms of national defense and security, and is the only place where Uncle Ho agreed to erect his statue when he visited the island on May 9, 1961.

Co To is an island district in the east of Quang Ninh province, about 80 km from the mainland. Co To has quite a few small islands, of which tourists mainly explore the island clusters of Co To, Co To Con and Thanh Lan.

 

 

Which season is good to travel to Co To

The most beautiful time to travel to Co To is summer and autumn. April and May are ideal because there are no storms, no rain, and the sun is not hot. June and July are suitable for summer travel but there are frequent storms. September and October have beautiful scenery, but it starts to get colder and rains more - the plus point is that the price is not as expensive as the peak season.

No matter what season you go, you should monitor the weather forecast before departing to avoid being stuck for a long time because boats are prohibited from sailing during storms. If a storm suddenly hits while you are in Co To, follow the instructions of local authorities, or tour guides in case of group travel. Stay in a hotel or find a safe shelter, only continue your journey when the storm clears. You should bring more money than your estimated budget.

 

Move to Co To island

To get to Co To, visitors need to go two ways: from Hanoi to Cai Rong takes 4 to 5 hours - from Cai Rong to Co To island takes 1.5 to 2 hours. You can travel on your own based on travel instructions to Co To island or book Hanoi Co To tours so you don't need to worry about travel problems.

To get to Co To island, visitors will have to take 2 steps:

Leg 1: Arrive at Cai Rong port, Van Don, Quang Ninh

Tourists from the South or Central region will take a flight to Hanoi or Hai Phong, Quang Ninh and then go by road to Cai Rong port, Van Don district.

If you don't drive your own car or motorbike from Hanoi, you can take a limousine or bus to Cua Ong, Cam Pha at My Dinh and Giap Bat bus stations. Price is about 180,000 VND to 250,000 VND per turn. Travel time is nearly 4 hours.

Departing from Hai Phong, travel time is about 1 hour 30 minutes. The price for a limousine is about 150,000 VND per trip, and a passenger car is about 120,000 VND per trip.

Leg 2: From Dragon Caddy to Co To Island

There are currently 3 types of ships: high-speed ships, wooden ships and reinforced ships. Tourists often take high-speed trains and wooden boats.

High-speed train: Travel time is more than one hour, reference ticket price is 250,000 VND per trip. Shipping lines include: Ka Long, Phuc Thinh, Co To 68, Co To 01, Havaco, Nguyen Viet, Quang Minh, Manh Quang, Hai Vinh 89, Hoang Quan. Departure time is from 6:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Wooden boat: Travel time is nearly three hours, reference ticket price is 95,000 VND per trip. Departure time from Van Don - Co To is 7am, return time is 1pm, as long as there are enough passengers.

 

What to do in  Co To

• Co To Beach

The most attractive point in Co To is the long beaches, fine white sand and clear water. On the island of Co To Lon there are beautiful beaches such as Van Chay, Love (also known as Shipwreck beach), Hong Van, Bac Van.

Co To Con island has South beach and East beach. To get to Co To Con island, tourists take a boat from Bac Van port (about 7km from town), the time to get to the island is about 30 to 45 minutes depending on the weather.

 

Not only is it an ideal place for bathing, Hong Van beach, Nam HBai, Van Chay... are beautiful places to watch sunrise and sunset. At night, you can have a BBQ on the beach.

If you're skillful enough, get up early to go to the market, buy seafood like squid, clams, oysters... to bring to the beach to grill at night. If you don't have the means to prepare it yourself, you can choose available BBQ service packages from some travel companies specializing in providing this service to have a romantic dinner, wine and seafood.

• The road of love 

The attraction of this area is the harmonious blend between the natural scenery, between the clouds and the sky and the water, between the rows of casuarina trees and the long sandy shore. The more than 2 km long road paved with red bricks, along the coast is a very charming feature of this land of Co To. Here, it will not be difficult for you to encounter romantic scenes like those often seen in Korean movies. A red brick road runs long under rows of green trees, blending into the color of water and clouds. Below the road are young couples walking hand in hand, feeling the coolness of the sea breeze blowing in...Perhaps That picturesque scene will be an unforgettable highlight when you travel.

Love Road is more than 2 km long with rows of straight and tall green trees on both sides of the road, melodious as if singing to the sound of the gentle, moving wind. The road of love brings many interesting things and many different levels of emotions to visitors, especially couples in love when they have the opportunity to go on Co To Tour.

• Co To Church

This church was built at the foot of a hill with a length of 26.7 m and a width of 9.8 m. Although this is a small church, it is the only church on the island, and is one of the attractions that tourists visit when traveling on the island.

 

• My Cau Stone Beach

Located in the south of Co To island, 3km from the center. Cau My has the most beautiful stone system on Co To island. It's a beautiful place to find lifelong photos and is very suitable for having a unique wedding photo album. It is the place to receive the first sunlight of the day.

 

• Ho Chi Minh Shroud Relic Site

This place has been recognized as a national historical relic site since 1997. The memorial area has relics associated with places where President Ho Chi Minh visited during his visit to the island district in 1961 and 1962.

 

• Primitive forest

With an area of ​​about 10 hectares, Co To bamboo forestis currently the largest and unique primeval bamboo forest in the country. Here, tourists will have the opportunity to admire many ancient bamboo trees over 20 meters high and nearly a hundred years old. The Choi tree is characterized by a flexible, tough trunk, early branching, and can withstand wind, waves and sea sand.

The flowers are green, tiny, grow in clusters like tiny drooping fireworks. When the flowers bloom, the whole forest seems to be wearing a new coat, touching people's hearts. Not only that, the Choi forest in Co To is considered a protective forest, protecting people's lives.

As a rich vegetation system, one side is the forest and the other is the sea, Co To primeval forest always makes visitors sobbing when visiting this place. p>

 

Specialties in Co To

Famous delicious Co To specialties you must enjoy when traveling here

• Sa Sung 

Sung worms are molluscs that only live on coastal sandbanks where the rising and falling tides create sand bars. If you see a live peanut worm, you will be a bit scared because it looks like a worm.

However, this seafood specialty when processed into a dish is delicious. Fresh sea worms are often used to cook soup with gourds, squash and all kinds of vegetables, tubers, and stir-fried bamboo shoots. Dried sea worms can be fried in oil until golden brown, dipped in chili sauce, crispy and sweet. In particular, the value of sea worms is extremely expensive, about 1 million/1 kg of fresh sea worms.

 

• Monk

The geoduck, also known as the geoducks, has an ivory-white outer shell with two half-closed shells. Protruding between the two shells is a long, large, cylindrical tentacle that looks similar to an elephant's trunk. As a rare specialty of Co To, geoduck is processed into many diverse and extremely attractive dishes by people on the island such as grilled geoduck, steamed geoduck, geoduck cooked with porridge...

• Curious

Cu Ky or Cu Ky crab, stone crab is a fairly common type of crab on the coast of Quang Ninh and Khanh Hoa, but Cu Ky has food value and is only found in Quang Ninh.

• Although the meat is not as juicy as crab meat, it is more delicious than crab, and the price is cheaper than crab, so it is very popular. However, the meat is only found in the two claws, the body is spongy and has almost no meat. Cu Ky is also prepared in many different ways such as cooking noodles, steaming, roasting tamarind, grilling with charcoal, stir-frying meat with vermicelli or making shrimp paste for children. li>
• Surface

Mantis shrimp, also known as mantis shrimp, is a specialty that you should not miss when coming to Co To. Mantis shrimp meat is delicious, sweet, and rich in sea flavor, very different from the taste of tiger prawns and lobsters. This type of shrimp is chewy, firm and very sweet. Grilled, steamed, roasted with salt, roasted with tamarind are all attractive.

• Jellyfish

The coastal people of Quang Ninh call jellyfish "white gold", not only because of the benefits it brings, but also because this is a delicious specialty, both cool and nutritious. Co To jellyfish is crispy, cool and has a flavor unlike any other seafood. People often prepare dishes from jellyfish hands and feet into soup, salad, hot pot, but the most popular is still jellyfish salad.

• Ink

Squid is available in all sea areas, but Co To squid is still popular with many tourists thanks to its thickness, sweetness, rich taste, chewiness and softness compared to squid in many other sea areas. After being grilled in Co To squid, each piece of meat is torn into a flexible and chewy texture. When eaten, you can feel the pure sweetness of the protein, without the acrid taste like squid in some other regions.

• Sea cucumber

Sea cucumber, also known as sea cucumber or sea leech, is probably a very familiar name in the list of specialties in Co To. Catch sea cucumbers and clean them, then soak them in alum to clean them and let them dry.

Sea cucumbers have no taste, but they easily absorb the flavors of other foods when cooked together, so after cooking, dishes with sea cucumbers become unique and will be remembered forever. People often use sea cucumbers soaked in wine, as medicine and to prepare many attractive dishes such as stir-frying with celery, carrots, mixed with a little fresh beef, very delicious and fragrant.

 

The above are some of the experiences we give to our readers, hoping to bring many useful things and make this place more familiar and attractive to you. Vietbluetour would like to wish you a very happy and safe journey with friends and relatives.

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